About Alison Lee

Professional Background

Alee’s professional career began in 1991 as a counselor with Kids Help Line and Parent Line where she worked for 10 years before moving into various therapeutic roles in the community which included 7 years as Sexual Assault Counselor and Group Worker with Brisbane Rape and Incest Survivor Support Centre, and 4 years as Counselor and facilitating groups with Isis – the Eating Issues Centre. Over the past 20 years Alee has provided services in wide range of contexts as a consultant, trainer, community educator, yoga teacher and artist for various projects and workshops and is experienced in working within and creating group environments that foster awareness, deepen understanding and inclusion of cultural and gender diversity, responding to the needs of people of all ages and abilities. Alee also draws on her own meditation and yoga practice, personal reflection and recovery from trauma, experience of mentoring and being mentored and her passion for the arts. Heartwork has evolved out of Alee’s experience and work as a therapist and a desire to offer integrated services that reflect her extensive training, expertise and unique creative approach

Therapeutic Approach

Heartwork, supports the development of awareness, deep listening or attunement to ones body wisdom, through experimentation, dialogue, art, movement, and play. By supporting and encouraging mindfulness, creativity and experimentation with the new or novel, by working mindfully with the body, the voice and emerging imagery and sensory data, to achieve greater personal satisfaction. Heartwork may be used as short or long term therapy, to assist with recovery from specific health conditions, moving gracefully through difficult times and as a supportive way of navigating work, relationship and life transitions. You can read more about Alee’s approach on the Counselling and Psychotherapy page.

My Purpose:

To be an ally in the process of raising awareness and possibility

To be a presence that inspires creativity, courage and playfulness

To share skills and services that support flexible, robust and loving relationships

To provide an empowering space that fosters clarity and insight

To cultivate quality listening and practices that nurture and inspire respect for complexity and creativity and build tolerance for community diversity.

Formal Qualifications

Certificate 4 in Workplace Assessment & Training (2011)

Masters of Gestalt Therapy (2008)

Graduate Diploma of Gestalt Therapy (2005)

The Outlook – Program Development and Facilitation (2005)

Interplay Leadership Training (2000)

Satyananda Yoga Teacher Training (1998)

Current Membership

Australian Counselling Association (ACA)

Gestalt Australia New Zealand (GANZ)

National Eating Disorders Collaboration (NEDC)

Awards

Brisbane City Council Community Service Award (2012)

Kids Help Line – Kylie Minogue Bursary for Study (1999)

Feedback

"She gave me many helpful strategies which helped ME cope better and made my reactions and responses to my daughter's behaviour and distress calmer and more helpful to her needs."

Carol NSW

"Thank you so much, all of your guidance and support, it has changed my life and probably saved my life. I honestly cannot thank you enough for helping me to turn my life around"

Make An Appointment

Ph: 0410 457 208

"O longing mind,
Dwell within the depth of your own pure nature.
Do not seek your home elsewhere...
Your naked awareness alone, O mind,
Is the inexhaustible abundance
For which you long so desperately."
- Sri Ramakrishna